Food calories:

Human eats about tex2html_wrap84 = tex2html_wrap85 fat/dat or tex2html_wrap86 of normal food.

Athletic output:

For normal people divide by 2.

3W/kg for long periods of time.

Birds can manage better: 20W/kg (for 10 minutes) and 50W/kg in burst.

Bird muscles do 100W/kg muscle steady vs human 10 W/kg steady




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